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The Bible In Paintings, #18: JACOB & ESAU, Part 3 of 3
Bing Images ^ | c. 2000 BC -- c. 90 AD | Father, Son & Holy Spirit

Posted on 07/07/2020 10:44:16 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6

Link to Part 1

which told these events:
GOD GIVES ISAAC AND REBEKAH TWIN BOYS
xxxxx ESAU SELLS HIS BIRTHRIGHT TO JACOB
xxxxxxxxxx JACOB STEALS ESAU’S BLESSING
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx JACOB FLEES FROM ESAU
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx JACOB’S DREAM

Link to Part 2

which told these events:

JACOB TAKES A WIFE—ER, TWO WIVES!
xx LABAN SWINDLES JACOB
xxxx JACOB SWINDLES LABAN
xxxxxx JACOB FLEES LABAN
xxxxxxxx LABAN PURSUES JACOB
xxxxxxxxxx JACOB CONFRONTS LABAN
xxxxxxxxxxxx JACOB HEADS TOWARD HOME


and now

JACOB & ESAU, Part 3

JACOB HEADS TOWARD
HOME -- AND ESAU

GENESIS 32
(NIV, excerpted, emphases added;
this section is repeated from Part 2 for context)

3 Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom. 4 He instructed them: “This is what you are to say to my lord Esau: ‘Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now. 5 I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, male and female servants. Now I am sending this message to my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.’”

6 When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

7 In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, and the flocks and herds and camels as well. 8 He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one group, the group that is left may escape.”

9 Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, Lord, you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,’ 10 I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps. 11 Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children. 12 But you have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.’”


by GUSTAV DORÉ
“The Prayer of Jacob”

13 He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau: 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15 thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. For he thought, “I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me.” 21 So Jacob’s gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.

JACOB WRESTLES WITH GOD

22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”

But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

27 The man asked him, “What is your name?”

“Jacob,” he answered.

28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”

29 Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.”

But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.

30 So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.


by JAMES TISSOT
“Jacob Wrestleth with an Angel”


by JOSEPH-FLORENTINE BONNAT
“Jacob Wrestling with the Angel”


by REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
“Jacob Wrestling with the Angel”


by GUSTAV DORÉ
“Jacob Wrestles with the Angel”


by EUGENE DELACROIX
“Jacob Wrestles with the Angel”


by GUSTAV MOREAU
“Jacob and the Angel”


“Jacob Wrestling with the Angel”


Gutenberg Bible, 1558


by JULIUS SCHNORR VON CAROLSFELD
“Jacob Wrestles with God”—woodcut


by ANDREA BRUSTOLON
“Jacob Wrestling with the Angel”


JACOB AND ESAU MEET AGAIN

GENESIS 33

1 Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants. 2 He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the rear. 3 He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.


by JAMES TISSOT
“Jacob Sees Esau Coming to Meet Him”

4 But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept.


by JAMES TISSOT
“The Meeting of Esau and Jacob”


by PETER PAUL RUBENS
“The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau”

5 Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. “Who are these with you?” he asked.

Jacob answered, “They are the children God has graciously given your servant.”

6 Then the female servants and their children approached and bowed down. 7 Next, Leah and her children came and bowed down. Last of all came Joseph and Rachel, and they too bowed down.

8 Esau asked, “What’s the meaning of all these flocks and herds I met?”

“To find favor in your eyes, my lord,” he said.

9 But Esau said, “I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.”

10 “No, please!” said Jacob. “If I have found favor in your eyes, accept this gift from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God, now that you have received me favorably. 11 Please accept the present that was brought to you, for God has been gracious to me and I have all I need.” And because Jacob insisted, Esau accepted it.

GENESIS 35
1 Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”

2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. 3 Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.” 4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem.


by Sebastien Bourdon
“Jacob Buries the Idols”

God appeared to him again and blessed him. 10 God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel.” So he named him Israel.

11 And God said to him, “I am God Almighty; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants. 12 The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.” 13 Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him.

27 Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. 28 Isaac lived a hundred and eighty years. 29 Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.


Again, here is the Bing page "JACOB & ESAU IN ART”,
showing various painters' and sculptors’ conceptions.
Several shown here are serious works worthy of interest,
by unknown artists except as noted.

Also, here are links to compendia of three masters
who painted Biblical scenes prolifically:

REMBRANT van RIJN

GUSTAV DORÉ
(241 wood engravings for
La Grande Bible de Tours)

JAMES TISSOT

Finally, here are links to the
PREVIOUS POSTS IN THIS SERIES


SPECIAL THANKS
to FReeper left that other site,
who allowed God to make her His conduit
for incomparable enthusiasm, encouragement,
education, advice and technical assistance!


SNEAK PEEK: Next time,

JOSEPH - DREAMS,
AND REALITY


TOPICS: Apologetics; General Discusssion; History; Theology
KEYWORDS: art; bible; paintings
I am surveying "Bible art" for my own amusement and learning (at the Holy Spirit's prompting) and thought others might enjoy it, too. The Bible encourages us to meditate on it (Ps. 1:1-3, 119:11-16, etc.), and these artists have done so and their works can assist us and enrich our own thoughts about biblical characters and incidents and concepts. My intent is to proceed methodically left-to right, Genesis to Revelation, as the Lord wills. Back soon with another.

But it is not only oil-on-canvas that can so help us; I refer to the astonishing video series The Chosen, which strolls through the four Gospels at the most leisurely pace. The eight episodes of Season 1 are finished, and the second of a planned seven seasons is coming soon. I say "leisurely" because after an entire year Jesus still has only seven of the apostles (although He's preparing to call up Thomas from the minor leagues--but Thomas is skeptical, of course). Anticipating a canvas of fifty-plus hours instead of a movie's paltry two hours, The Chosen turns the characters (including Jesus!) into three-dimensional humans and brings the Gospels alive--you have never seen anything even remotely like it! Here is the Official Trailer.

Here is a link for free viewing of The Chosen: “Works with your phone, tablet, and you can cast to your Roku or Chromecast.” I paid $34.98 for DVDs and ongoing internet access—best 35 bucks I've ever spent (I don’t recall how much our marriage license cost, but then it was 42 years ago).

1 posted on 07/07/2020 10:44:16 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
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To: Maudeen; stars & stripes forever; Battle Axe
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2 posted on 07/07/2020 10:48:18 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Add me please...


3 posted on 07/07/2020 11:04:40 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Vendome
The more the merrier! (If I mentioned Charles Laughton, Jean Arthur and Joel McRae, would that resonate?)
4 posted on 07/08/2020 6:15:26 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Thanks for another beautiful collection.

I find it interesting that in the wresting match narrative, identities are rather conflated. Jacob, Esav, even God Himself.

It’s all going to make sense in the end.

It’s not a popular idea, especially with the long history of bloodshed, but those twins were meant for each other, to be united as one.

All a big misunderstanding, pretty much.


5 posted on 07/08/2020 5:53:18 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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To: Ezekiel
meant for each other, to be united as one

My granddaughter said that just yesterday about my wife and me, and she's exactly right.

All a big misunderstanding, pretty much.

Perhaps, but the text highlights Jacob's continuing proclivity, from birth on, for deception and swindling. I think a case could be made that overcoming this character flaw was the issue he and the angel of the Lord were wrestling over: "Stop deceiving humans and Me."

6 posted on 07/08/2020 7:27:08 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6
Perhaps, but the text highlights Jacob's continuing proclivity, from birth on, for deception and swindling.

Well, a lot of people think that but I'm the unpopular outlier as usual. Jacob was put up to the blessing deception by his mother, who said she'd take the curse for it.

When Jacob met Rachel, he perceived she'd be the one person who would understand him and know that he had a good heart. Total connection.

It's just how it is, even if no one would believe my comment, or would assume it is just plain senseless because where do I get this stuff.

Not directed at you. I guess I am just really tired of being tired.

7 posted on 07/08/2020 7:57:43 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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To: Ezekiel
Rather than tire you further by arguing the point, I'll simply acknowledge that your position is defensible and attractive.

Total connection.

While that may well be true, the physical connection followed a seven-year engagement.

8 posted on 07/08/2020 8:38:44 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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